Mapping

In the near future the Vespucci editor will feature convenient layer management.

The blocking of Telegram by Russian authorities affected Amazon Cloud among others and therefore JOSM, as some of the rendering styles are hosted on GitHub, which uses Amazon Cloud too.

Yuri Astrakhan proposes on the Tagging mailing list to use relations to map language regions.

The tagging mailing list examines the appropriate tagging and naming of traffic training areas for children, focused on traffic rules for pedestrians and cyclists.

The organised mappers group, who previously made bad quality edits to streets in India, still didn’t answer to comments to their changesets, and has now moved its focus on US highway=service additions. Further user accounts have been blocked and changesets were reverted. This was followed by a discussion on the talk-us mailing-list where some American mappers disagree with the reverts.

Community

On his homepage, Pascal Neis provides a detailed overview of changeset discussions.

bhousel suggests, on github, the introduction of two additional user roles (director/directee) for organized mapping on OpenStreetMap, Such roles may require additional classes of rights.

felskia reports her work at Development Seed, conducting user interviews to discover the requirements of different groups for collaboration in OpenStreetMap. The overall aim is to guide the selection of targeted improvements to the ecosystem.

Events

The sixth SotM France will take place in Bordeaux from 1st – 3rd June. The organizers are delighted to share that participants will be greeted by OSM maps displayed on every public transport stop in the city.

The Linuxtage at the FH Technikum Wien will take place from 3rd to 5th May 2018. OpenStreetMap Austria will be represented with a booth. The general meeting of the Austrian OSM-booster society will take place on 4th May.

The OSM Spring Hackathon will take place from May 21st and 22nd in Washington DC at the Mapbox premises.

On the 19th May, OpenStreetMap UK 2018 Annual General Meeting will be held in Manchester. The afternoon will consist of the 1st Annual General Meeting of OSM UK CIC, followed by workshops and mapping by community members from across the country. All are welcome to attend. Before the lunch the AGM will include elections and then attendance is limited to paid-up members.

The State of the Map 2018 in Milan is hosting a poster competition. Submit your posters by 30th June.

Maps

Bike Ottawa (Canada), has created a Traffic Stress map based on OSM. Every segment of street and path in Ottawa, has a calculated “Level of Traffic Stress” (LTS) rating from 1-4, based on the Mineta Institute formula. A few substitutions are also made to account for what data is actually available. For those not familiar with editing OSM, the map provides a feedback option.

Open Data

imagico.de remembers the tenth anniversary of the first publication of the Landsat pictures by the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey).

Licences

Simon Poole presents the recommendations (PDF) of the License Working Group for the implementation of the Privacy Policy in the OpenStreetMap project on the Talk and OSMF-Talk mailing lists and invites discussion.

Programming

Klokan Technologies mentions in a blog entry how they generate their OpenMapTiles on a cluster of 32 cloud servers in parallel.

Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology has published an R package to use the Openrouteservice API.